Stephen F. Lynch

Free trade should not mean free labor.

— Stephen F. Lynch

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

— Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

— Stephen F. Lynch

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

— Stephen F. Lynch

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

— Stephen F. Lynch

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

— Stephen F. Lynch

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled…

— Stephen F. Lynch

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think…

— Stephen F. Lynch

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are…

— Stephen F. Lynch

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico,…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed…

— Stephen F. Lynch

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes…

— Stephen F. Lynch

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central…

— Stephen F. Lynch